Moldova's best known export

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Moldova is the least visited country in Europe (and one of the least visited in the world). We knew nothing about it before we visited it for the first time last year. Today I asked the guys here what was Moldova's best known export and they told me that it was O-Zone (one hit band) and this song in particular. And indeed I think I heard it before in London. I did not know that it was a Moldovan band though. The guy who wrote the song (the tallest of them) earned slightly over ten million euros from its international success and now lives in New York.

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[found-world.livejournal.com]

I remember when this song was pretty popular, or at least, more popular than it seems to be now. I did not know, or had forgotten, they are a Moldovan band.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I do not think it is popular now at all but it was really successful internationally for a couple of months about ten years ago I think. I am not into music but even I heard it.

I think this is the only thing coming from Moldova that is know internationally (even though most people who know this song probably do not know that it is Moldovan).

[found-world.livejournal.com]

Ten years... such a long time... yet, that must be when I heard it, for it was all over the internet.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I was still technically a teen then ).

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

IIRC, this song got really popular when a guy uploaded a video of himself lip syncing it.

Wait here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk

I too had no idea it was a Moldovan band. :)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately that video won't play in Moldova ) but I see that it got way more views than the original video indeed.

[wanderipity.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, yeah this video!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Now I really want to watch it.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the video by now? Or are you still interested in it?

[wanderipity.livejournal.com]

I'm cracking up!!!!!! I first heard this song in some viral videos of a person lip singing it. Wow, I never knew the singer nor where it came from. Made me laugh.

[topum.livejournal.com]

These Moldovan guys got really lucky (and rich beyond their wildest dreams) with this and nobody even knows who they were, ha ha.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Ha!  I think I heard this song a few nights ago on either "so you think you can dance" or "America's got talent"  Someone did a dance routine to the song. 

Had no idea it was a Moldovan band though. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

I didn't know either. It seems to be one of those songs everybody heard but has no idea who actually sang it.

[darkoshi]

I remember this song too. So nice and chipper.

[topum.livejournal.com]

A bit of an earworm.

[mushroomcloudz.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend is Romanian and this was also a popular song in Romania. I used to hear it a lot here in the US when I was younger. I still know most of the words to it, but never realized it was even in a different language. I just thought it was a funny song. Lol I was singing to it at home the other day and my boyfriend said "how do you know this song??" Haha

[topum.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, it was popular pretty much everywhere in Europe for a short period of time a while ago. But yes, I believe it would have been especially popular in Romania since Moldova and Romania seem to have a shared cultural space and the song is in Romanian.

[claypot.livejournal.com]

Oh jeepers I haven't heard this song for ages!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[pageeater.livejournal.com]

I missed this one all together. Sometimes I give thanks for the small favors. ;-P

[topum.livejournal.com]

It was hard to miss in Europe, it was everywhere for a month or so.